44 SPRING-TIDE. 



Gloster's Chronicle, and in the MS. of Piers 

 Ploughman, edited by Whitaker ; so, you 

 see, my friend here is only talking a lan- 

 guage which the scholar and the gentleman 

 once used. 



Simon. Won't 'e try a leetle bit lavver 

 down, zur. Ize zartin zhure ye '11 vind a 

 girt un or two in the mill-tail, if zo be 

 Measter Julian 'oud like to try a minney. 



S. What say you to Simon's suggestion ; 

 Shall we walk to the mill-tail and try a 

 minnow ? 



J. With all my heart. Come along ; 

 and, as we walk there, tell me what you 

 have to say on " Ize " which I often hear 

 in this neighbourhood. 



S. Ha, there you almost bring me to a 

 non plus, and I fear you will get, in this 

 instance, conjecture only, the hobby-horse 

 of etymologists, in the place of illustration. 

 The use of " Ize," or " Ise," is not so 

 easily explained. I have little doubt that 



